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Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch Provokes Bomb Scare
Bomb disposal teams were called in and a nearby pub evacuated after water company engineers mistook a Monty Python film prop for a hand grenade. After nearly an hour of examination by bomb experts, they counted to three. No more. No less. Three was the number they counted, and the number they counted was three. Four they did not count, nor two, except to proceed to three. Five was right out. Once the number three had been reached, being the third number, they declared that the grenade was actually a copy of the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" used in the film Monty Python And The Holy Grail. A police spokeswoman confirmed that the device was a toy and that it had been no danger to the public.
Run away!!
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google"
I have an albatross for sale...
Some people are only alive because it's against the law for me to hunt them down and kill them.
Congraultions, UK, you just made Boston's cops look like a paragon of sanity!
... the Lord did grin.
Of course no-one was in danger. No-one took out the Holy Pin.
'If Christ had tweeted the sermon on the mount, it might have lasted until nightfall.' - John Perry Barlow
So some genius thought a bright gold beanbag with a silver cross and a plastic gem on it was a bomb, because it said HOLY BOMB on it.
"Genius" must've been undead. Not like anyone else is going to be overly concerned about holy damage.
If I were a terrorist, which I assure you I'm not, then I would disguise my weapons as toy weapons. And I would put blinking LEDs on it, and perhaps make the toy-bomb-like objects tick. Of course, if I were a terrorist, I would assure you that, even though I have thought about ways to hide weapons, I am in fact not a terrorist. Wait, there's someone at the door...
sadly they missed the animator at the end of the bar who died from a heart attack
"I bet they'd have been whining pretty loudly if the cops were faster but didn't a thorough job of it."
I can imagine. Just think of all the lives they'd have put at risk by not taking every precaution necessary in disabling a toy grenade.
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
When they a bunny?!?!?!?
That makes no sense whatsoever.
What are you babbling about?
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
when they accidentally a whole bunny?! Who knows!?
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Woosh
We all know that Red Blinky numbers are the favourite of terrorists the world over.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Quick, he's distracted by the joke, throw your grenade now!